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longship

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6. Well, first, St. Patrick's Day is 17 Mar, not 2 Mar.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 05:41 PM

Mar 2013

What's happening here? Are we really turning St. Patrick's Day into an over two week celebration? It's freaking bad enough being one day -- cops all over the place, to say nothing of intoxicated drivers.

As a Suomalainen, I demand equal time for St Urhos Day, 16 March. After all, St. Urho drove the grasshoppers out of Suomi a whole 24 hours before St. Patrick got to his snakes.

St. Patrick was a mere minor saint. St. Urho beat him by a whole day. And Urho had to deal with grasshoppers, probably zillions of them! Not just a coupla silly snakes.

Where were the St. Urho parades? I have my grasshopper hat ready and everything. Huh!?

Sisu!

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